>I think, that you can use:
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>sele eval(right(cyear,2)), eval(cperiod)...
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This works, but only if !empty(cYear). Otherwise I get an error.

Thanks for the idea, it's nice and simple.
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>>>>>>>>>>>>your mesage below
>Hi everybody,
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>I have a table with cYear, Period and other fields. cYear is 4 character representation of the year, Period is 2 chars field. 01-12 for months.
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>The result of Query should have Year (N 2) field - 2 last digits and Period (N 2)
>I tried select val(right(cYear,2)) as Year, val(Period) as Period ..., but it formats the result to be N 2.2 Is it possible to change without messing around with set decimals?
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>It's URGENT!